Getting out those letters!

It certainly seems silly to spend money that you don't have in order to get more money, but I suppose that's how life goes!

I've a stack of letters for sponsorship that I'll be sending out by next week. They're almost all ready to go, I just have to print out the last few... 

And by "the last few" I mean the last two hundred. Between postage and printing, I feel really frazzled, but I'm hoping it will all be worth it! :) 

Aside from that, I've finally managed to finish my personal statement for the UCAS. I must have rewritten it at least fourteen times. I know I scrapped it and completely started over from scratch a tiring total of six times!

I'm now keying in the very last bit of my qualifications and then it's OVER!!! For the middle of November, I think that's not too bad even though I've been working on it since September.... (actually, who am I kidding? That's pretty bad! Translating between American school terminology and that of the UK is absolutely boggling).

And now comes the agonizing wait. I'm already chewing my nails with worry... I'm certain that Americans really do have that "uneducated" stigma attached to them, and UWE is such a great school with so many international students coming in all the time... I know I have what it takes, but I'm still so worried that I just won't make the cut! Urrghhh, I don't even want to THINK about finding a rejection letter in the post... I would feel very much as if I'd want to die! 

Equally worrying is (as always) the idea of funding this endeavor. As an individual prospective student, it's remarkably difficult finding legit ideas for fundraisers that interfere with neither the law nor the local schools or churches. I've a few ideas, though, courtesy of this website, so we'll see how that goes! 

Until then...!